Costa Rica: Finca Pura Vida
The last site we do research on is our home base which we call Finca Pura Vida. The Finca is on 10 hectares and backs up to a larger track of contiguous forest. The site has a good variety of different species and is particularly rich with Neotropical migrants. We do the majority of our Hummingbird banding research at the site because it has a healthy migrant population of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds (Archilochus colubris). We band resident hummingbirds as well and have recorded two out of range species. There is a diverse variety of other wildlife and we have noted a great diversity of fauna...
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